To avoid giving the wrong impression, I think it's also important to mention that local authorities also helped by quickly removing all the rubbish we collected during this event. The amount of rubbish on our streets is even more disheartening for them than it is for us volunteers, because they deal with it everyday.
Thanks for this comment. I was going to ask if you had warned the local authorities about the extra bags you would be leaving around. I had to do this in my town when we had big clean ups to be sure they could staff up for their extra work.
Happy to hear these bags get taken away quickly! If it was sitting around for awhile it might make a mess again and you've already worked so hard in the first place 😊
Ive been in the waste industry for over 20 years, what we see here is only the tip of the iceberg. People won't take personal responsibility, but neither do businesses that used excess packaging, the war needs to start with manufacturers and retailers, but there also needs to be a nationwide education program in schools to instill some pride in the younger generations. I grew up in New Zealand but coming to the UK has been an eye opener, this would never be seen in NZ, even in the most deprived areas there is respect for the environment, mostly due to early education, teaching the affects on wildlife, rivers, beaches and ocean.
I just moved to NZ (from the US) and the trash/litter problem is much less. Here I have noticed in the downtown area the city or merchants pay for people to go around and pick up litter. Same in the commercial retail parking lots. Everyday someone is paid to do these tasks. This was not true in the US, in my city at least. All the cleaning was by us volunteers.
@@ctmurray I think you'll find it's actual shop staff that take the time to tidy the areas in front of their business to make it more appealing. Incidentally what part of the country did you settle in? I've noticed quite a few Americans moving over there, must say in my 40 years in NZ I never once met anyone from the US, is it becoming a trend or just noticeable because of the internet? I come from Dunedin but been away for around 20 years so I'm a bit out of touch.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara We are in Rotorua, my daughter lives here, I am retired. We have heard of a few other Americans in town, and I played golf with one (they tend to be doctors for some reason). In my US city the shop owners were supposed to keep the sidewalk in front clean, but this did not happen. Instead they would sweep their inside out to the sidewalk. This small town had a historic district with lots of bars and restaurants, and thus smoking and cigarette butts (and broken beer bottles). Your effort over such a large area is most impressive.
@@ctmurray I could think of worse places to retire, enjoy your rest, no doubt you've earned it. Make sure to get around the South Island, you won't regret it. I grew up with the anti littering campaign around the 70s, it was instilled into us to "Be a tidy Kiwi", and I think it just stuck and gets passed down the generations, although there will always be the occasional pig, most people have respect for the environment and wildlife. Enjoy!
@@DomingoDeSantaClara Thanks for the tip. So far we have been here with our grandson (born during Covid). But next summer for sure. We were so happy when we arrived to find paid people cleaning. Once you start picking up litter you cannot not see it wherever you go.
I don't see any teenagers amongst the volunteers. Schools and parents need to be shown this to get them involved. Teenagers should be taught that this is THEIR future!! ❤
True, we don't have many teenagers in our ranks (though there are some), but that is expected. If I were a teenager, I would hardly want to spend my time hanging out with a bunch of old people. :) But of course, young people volunteer too and without question many of them are aware of how important it is.
Just like the broken window theory, people are more likely to litter when they see litter around them. And it only takes a rogue fly tipper to start the chain reaction. Also i think using a small rake might be better to gather up the litter in the green spaces.
I do something similar here in Eugene, Oregon. I usually get between 2-4 gallons per day out of our wetlands park in the center of town. It is so wonderful to see what you do. I love your grabber.
So happy I found this channel :) I like how you get the areas a lot of people wouldn't think of (like between the brick wall and the rubbish bin). Eventually some of that trash will blow away and enter our waterways. Every piece matters, thank you for cleaning up for everyone ❤
It’s nice that there’s so many groups and communities that have people clean neighborhoods and stuff. It’s just nice knowing there’s other people that care.
Incredibly sad and totally avoidable. The garbage that humans are putting on this planet is unbelievable. I wish that more and more community groups could get together to keep their own neighborhood clean. Seeing how the garbage spills out of private gardens is sickening. May the Harrow Litter Pickers be an inspiration to others. Thank you!
Used to live in coventry ,stoney stanton and foleshill areas have to be seen to be believed mainly asian areas ,they are absolute open sewers,now i lincoln ,the difference is remarkable.
Here in Outer London you can go from a horror show to a beautiful neighborhood just by turning a couple of corners. Not to mention going from e.g Wembley to a central area like Kensington. It's like visiting another planet.
That is a monumental task to clean up. I can understand getting discouraged. My experience so far in my community has been manageable -- definitely not as bad as what I see in this video. I get satisfaction in seeing the improvement when I clean an area of my community. I realize the results are temporary, but for a time it does look nice.
Private land is... difficult to deal with, in reality there isn't much that the Council can do if people choose to let their properties drown in rubbish, unless it poses some sort of risk to others.
Seit 1984 bereise ich regelmäßig die britischen Inseln. Die ersten Jahre war ich begeistert, weil es überall so sauber war. Aber irgendwann nach dem Jahr 2000 hat sich etwas geändert. Egal wo ich jetzt auf den britischen Inseln hinkomme, sieht es so aus wie in diesem Video. Aber ich freue mich, dass es doch noch Menschen gibt, die sich darum kümmern, wie es in ihrer Nachbarschaft aussieht und zur Tat schreiten und aufräumen. Vielen Dank !! 👍
@@djfearross4144 Ich glaube, das ist nicht die Haupt-Ursache. Auch bei uns gibt es viele "einheimische" Jugendliche, die einfach ihren Müll hinter sich schmeißen. Es fehlt eindeutig an Erziehung durch die Eltern und auch durch das Umfeld. Viele Menschen sind einfach gleichgültig geworden.
Keep up the good work all of you guys and gals. Your reward will be in heaven if nowhere else. Love you. I have some relatives who are partly English. Thank you again.
1:05 it‘s so crazy to discover places like these while probably many people walk by every day. and this privat property 4:55 looks crazy. great job again! ❤❤❤
And the video doesn't even show the worst that I've seen. Around 30 minutes of critical footage was unfortunately corrupted due to a problem with my GoPro. Thanks for watching!
What needs to happen is this. People who don’t attend to the upkeep of their or the property they reside in should be prosecuted. Fines and court enforcements should be applied. This is unacceptable. If I lived their I would be going through the process of enforcing the liberty that I have to live in an area free of filth.
In a cost of living crisis with people working even more to make ends meet I’d imagine coming home and cleaning litter from their gardens is the last thing on their minds.
I'm not sure there's adequate legislation to allow for that. But even if there was, it would be very hard to enforce. I should know, I lived in precisely this kind of area and there was no real mechanism for the local authority to do anything. So I ended up cleaning people's gardens myself (in vain, I might add), I have a few videos of that too. I don't want to bring anyone down, but I'm afraid there isn't much to legally leverage at the moment.
@@talex1625 I agree, I was referring to the peoples gardens and private property. My grans garden gets litter all the time and we have to go there to clean and maintain it for her but could take weeks to go do it.
@@KeepItCleanLondon I am in the US. My city had to pass a law specifically covering litter on your property. And hire a code enforcement person. The law has the city give you a letter/warning. Then if not cleaned up a fine attached to the property. But the city relied on residents complaints, they did not patrol areas.
You ALL did a really good job❤ After seeing this I really love the place where I am living even more! Here on island Flores/Azores/Portugal I stop the car, walk back and pick up one single plastic bottle lying at the side of the street... it should not been pushed by wind towards the ocean. People are not aware what they are doing to the environment and to THEMSELVES...😢
Are people living in that area depending on your clean up troop to clean up their mess, thinking “I’ll dump it all here for them to pick it up later.”?
Unfortunately this is a particularly rough area, but definitely not all London is like this, there are many areas that are much cleaner. Indeed, the residents aren't blameless, there is a lack of a tidiness culture, but it's only one of the factors. But the bins, I'm afraid, are a pain point in much of London - either too few, too rarely emptied, or simply not used even when available. It's to do with lack of resources, lack of money, lack of staff, absence of environmental education and so on. A very complicated issue to solve, that's for sure.
Thank you for cleaning up the city. Apparently there are no enforcement/code enforcement officers who cite violaters. Thank you for making a difference. Do you think if the news station did a story on what you are doing people will clean up their lots/ property.
Thank you! Yes, some parts are hard to stomach, I can't deny that, but there is also a lot of potential, and we're trying to tip the scales by raising awareness and trying to get more locals on board with volunteering. In the long run, it might make the difference between this area starting to thrive or continuing to go downhill.
Such a great work you’re all doing. It does help when there is no trash laying around people tend to not throw it on the ground. Perhaps a silly suggestion, but I’ve seen these workstations on wheels with a broom and dustbin and a place to put the bag while filling it up, easier and faster perhaps? It must be so hard on your hands holding up the bag all the time.
Thanks! Some people do use that sort of trolley and it's really handy, but it's also annoying to carry one around if you need to take the bus and you also lose a bit of mobility if you need to tackle off-road patches (e.g. green spaces). There might come a time when I start using one, though.
Some of them actually did - I believe Brent ceased litter-picking residential streets back in 2019 and removed 120 litter bins due to budgetary constraints.
I feel like you should be sponsored by Carlsberg or Budweiser, seeing as that's most of what you pick up. It really is extraordinary how much litter in Britain is either fast food related, or alcohol related. We as a nation clearly have a massive problem. Some days, I feel like I live in a Mumbai slum, the amount of garbage I see. I try and pick up what I can, but I'm one person, and often the places I hit are filthy again within a matter of days. All feels so pointless. It's depressing.
Well, Gareth Thomas MP joined (he has joined a number of our litter-picking events in the past too). He is a great supporter of our group and has explicitly mentioned the work we do in Parliament.
Is there no recycling for bottles/cans/beverage containers in the UK? We would never find these things in our area as they are taken back to store for money deposit. It’s amazing how much garbage is next to the trash bins, crazy.
I'm using a similar model to this and am very happy with it: www.amazon.co.uk/Helping-Hand-Company-LP3035IB-35-Inch/dp/B079RLQRCH/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_0
I know a area that should be cleaned when I get back from holiday. The problem is I used to sell cans but my friend still wants to so it means we have to take 2 bags. Also does having a litter picker make a big difference?
@@XabiExplores I recommend tongs-style litter pickers over those with a cable, because they last longer, but it's ultimately a matter of personal preference. Try one model and see how it works for you.
Y yo pensaba que en España éramos unos cerdos, pero no, tristemente, los ciudadanos que no respetan ni cuidan el entorno de su ciudad, están en todas partes. Queremos vivir en otros planetas cuando no somos capaces de mantener limpias ni nuestras calles 🙄
These are private properties where landlords are required to provide adequate waste disposal facilities. One of the problems is some of them don't and then we get into situations like these
I am so sad to se that the employees of this city don’t do their job well. In France it’s almost the same. You havé tocollect the trash and ask them to pick it up. They do it but they are not happy.
They do their job to the extent of what's possible, but there are way, way too few workers due to budget shortages, so they're simply overwhelmed, it's impossible to keep things under control - I saw this with my own eyes. All the rubbish that our volunteers collected was promptly picked up by the Council's waste disposal teams - so we're trying to work together with the local authorities.
How can people live in such squatter?? Is the garbage collection company supposed to (at the very least) collect garbage near the bins? Or do they pretend to not see it?
The rubbish collectors are not allowed (nor should) clean up private property. But if you refer to the bags on the street, those are indeed being collected continuously by the Council teams as soon as they're reported.
@@KeepItCleanLondon I referred to the garbage around the bins (11:00 for example). Even here (Eastern Europe) each garbage truck is accompanied by 3 people, two to move the giant containers (they are 1100 liter on wheels). The third one collects anything that is around the containers. There is also an open haul that goes around every container in the neighborhood once per week and collects all large garbage (mattresses, furniture, big electronics, etc.).
@@ДимитърТасев-р9п Oh, that is not how it works here. Anything outside the alloted wheelie bins is not touched, everything needs to be inside the bins, period. There is also no such thing as free collection of bulky items. If you want to legally get rid of your mattress, you pay 40 pounds to the Council and wait a few weeks for a collection slot. Or you pay for a man-and-van to collect it right away, but you risk hiring a professional fly-tipper who charges people money to take their stuff and then dumps it on another street or in a river. It's how things are...
@@KeepItCleanLondon No wonder it is such a mess. Maybe if the council spent a bit of money on these little things, you won't find that much garbage... I've went through multiple ghettos in Bulgaria. These places are notorious for the amount of people living there and the poor hygiene. It was a lot better than this. There were piles of garbage around the containers, but that's because there aren't enough containers (and they can't put more since there are not enough people who are registered there and they can't register since their building is not legal). These piles seemed mostly fresh and changed their content and size over the days (i.e. they are collected by the garbage man from time to time).
Holy Smokes!! Great cleanup video as usual! That is a lot of trash to deal with. We have similar issues in some neighborhoods. Whenever I get overwhelmed with a giant debris pile I text our local debris removal team, they do a great job at dealing with the big stuff but they suck at dealing with the common debris that are strewn all over the place.
Our fly-tip removal teams are very fast too, but they're also struggling to cope. The street cleaning team, though, are utterly understaffed and are simply overwhelmed. As soon as they clean one street, it gets littered again. They also don't clean most of the shrubbery, which is why it's very common to find piles of old stuff in them. Thanks for watching!🎉
Barely any of the properties have owners living in them anymore, it's mostly rented out. Couple that with a very high population turnover, with people moving in and out all the time, and you start to get an idea about why people don't look after their front gardens - it's not really THEIR gardens and they don't necessarily care about maintaining them. Source: I lived in a similar area for years and witnessed it myself.
@Keep It Clean No. It's not about ownership. I would NEVER walk by that mess to assess my unit no matter now long or short my lease. Source I too was a renter/tenant.
@@lezlieanne21 Well, of course not ALL tenants do this, that wasn't the point. There will be many who do look after the properties they rent. You, for example, represent one such sample, and there are many others like you. However, there are also many others unlike you. And if those others add up to a critical mass - and it doesn't even have to be a majority- then we start seeing this sort of problem. There are many ways in which people rent: long-term, short-term, an entire property, a room in a house of multiple occupation, legally, illegally etc. It's not reliable to extrapolate data from a single sample. I've always rented too, but it would be impossible -and wrong- to draw any macro conclusion from my own behaviour. What I and many other volunteers have noticed after years of doing this, is that communities where owner-occupiers have disappeared in favour of a tenant turnover model almost always suffer from serious problems with waste disposal and street cleanliness. And not just because of the tenants, but also because of those landlords who don't provide adequate facilities, by the way. I used to live in an (illegal, as it eventually turned out) HMO for a few years and I never got to know who my housemates were, because they would come and go every few months. And every other time someone left, they would dump things either in front of the house or in someone else's garden or in the middle of the road. And I would see this with many houses in that area (Wembley). For instance, the third video I ever posted on this channel was me cleaning up the mess left by one of my housemates when he moved out after 2 months... So as far as my field experience goes, what can be seen in this video is not exclusively, but indeed strongly correlated with the level and implementation model of property rentals. Naturally, it may not be applicable everywhere, but it's a pretty good indicator, at least in the areas I've covered so far.
Why? Why is it so bad? I was taught, and taught my children that you do not litter, ever. This blows my mind that people just throw trash fown with no regard.
I admire you for doing this but i gave up doing this where i live because people have got the mentality that someone else will pick it up also people like living in there own filth and heroin foils and dog poo as for the local council litter pickers they drive aroud in there transit pick up truck and never get out of it.!!!!! Educate people used to make a difference.
Sorry I was wrong, this area is worse than Paris for exemple, since Thérèse was no garbage collector’s strike in this area... In Paris yes unfortunately
On that subject, Paris was the first European capital where I was shocked by street cleanliness, many years ago. On my first visit, I stayed in 18e Arondissement (Porte de Clignancourt), on my second and third visits I stayed in 19e and 10e Arondissements respectively. I still remember getting off at Gare du Nord and within 5 minutes being shocked by the state of the streets, it was heartbreaking to see, I just couldn't explain how it was possible. I don't know how it is now, but I hope it's better when garbage collectors are not on strike...
I hope by some miracle litterers see this video or the work being done by you on the streets and change their ways. Its a big hope but its all i can do
Nah, this video was never meant for litter louts and fly-tippers, I'm afraid nothing I can do, show or say would have much effect on them. The target audience is politicians, authorities, leaders, businesses and entities with decisional power to influence or steer society in the right direction through adequate legislation, green agendas, better operational standards etc. And also decent people who could start putting more pressure on them.
To avoid giving the wrong impression, I think it's also important to mention that local authorities also helped by quickly removing all the rubbish we collected during this event.
The amount of rubbish on our streets is even more disheartening for them than it is for us volunteers, because they deal with it everyday.
Thanks for this comment. I was going to ask if you had warned the local authorities about the extra bags you would be leaving around. I had to do this in my town when we had big clean ups to be sure they could staff up for their extra work.
Obvious public drunkenness is the main problem
Happy to hear these bags get taken away quickly! If it was sitting around for awhile it might make a mess again and you've already worked so hard in the first place 😊
@@WontBeSaved Then it would look like in NY/USA, where the rats are as big as dogs! 🤣
Ive been in the waste industry for over 20 years, what we see here is only the tip of the iceberg. People won't take personal responsibility, but neither do businesses that used excess packaging, the war needs to start with manufacturers and retailers, but there also needs to be a nationwide education program in schools to instill some pride in the younger generations. I grew up in New Zealand but coming to the UK has been an eye opener, this would never be seen in NZ, even in the most deprived areas there is respect for the environment, mostly due to early education, teaching the affects on wildlife, rivers, beaches and ocean.
I just moved to NZ (from the US) and the trash/litter problem is much less. Here I have noticed in the downtown area the city or merchants pay for people to go around and pick up litter. Same in the commercial retail parking lots. Everyday someone is paid to do these tasks. This was not true in the US, in my city at least. All the cleaning was by us volunteers.
@@ctmurray I think you'll find it's actual shop staff that take the time to tidy the areas in front of their business to make it more appealing. Incidentally what part of the country did you settle in? I've noticed quite a few Americans moving over there, must say in my 40 years in NZ I never once met anyone from the US, is it becoming a trend or just noticeable because of the internet? I come from Dunedin but been away for around 20 years so I'm a bit out of touch.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara We are in Rotorua, my daughter lives here, I am retired. We have heard of a few other Americans in town, and I played golf with one (they tend to be doctors for some reason). In my US city the shop owners were supposed to keep the sidewalk in front clean, but this did not happen. Instead they would sweep their inside out to the sidewalk. This small town had a historic district with lots of bars and restaurants, and thus smoking and cigarette butts (and broken beer bottles). Your effort over such a large area is most impressive.
@@ctmurray I could think of worse places to retire, enjoy your rest, no doubt you've earned it. Make sure to get around the South Island, you won't regret it. I grew up with the anti littering campaign around the 70s, it was instilled into us to "Be a tidy Kiwi", and I think it just stuck and gets passed down the generations, although there will always be the occasional pig, most people have respect for the environment and wildlife. Enjoy!
@@DomingoDeSantaClara Thanks for the tip. So far we have been here with our grandson (born during Covid). But next summer for sure. We were so happy when we arrived to find paid people cleaning. Once you start picking up litter you cannot not see it wherever you go.
I don't see any teenagers amongst the volunteers. Schools and parents need to be shown this to get them involved. Teenagers should be taught that this is THEIR future!! ❤
True, we don't have many teenagers in our ranks (though there are some), but that is expected. If I were a teenager, I would hardly want to spend my time hanging out with a bunch of old people. :) But of course, young people volunteer too and without question many of them are aware of how important it is.
I can not stress how much I appreciate you and all the volunteers thank you
Thank you!
I cannot believe that the authorities don't rise more awareness about this problem. People have like NO selfrespect
Every person involved in this cleanup is a rockstar!!!
Well done mate it’s a shame people don’t have more pride in there area’s 😢
Thank you. We're definitely trying to change that.
multiculturism at its finest.
What's to be proud about, we are being replaced. It's called the Kalergi plan.
I just found your videos and I'm so happy to see all your hard work to fight litter! Great job! Thank you so much. I'm a litter fighter in Virginia :)
Thank you, that is fantastic to hear!
Just like the broken window theory, people are more likely to litter when they see litter around them. And it only takes a rogue fly tipper to start the chain reaction.
Also i think using a small rake might be better to gather up the litter in the green spaces.
I do something similar here in Eugene, Oregon. I usually get between 2-4 gallons per day out of our wetlands park in the center of town. It is so wonderful to see what you do. I love your grabber.
Well done volunteers. I’d love to see this in Birmingham.😊
Thank you. Anything is possible, just takes a few committed individuals to bite the bullet and hopefully lead to a snowball effect.
So happy I found this channel :) I like how you get the areas a lot of people wouldn't think of (like between the brick wall and the rubbish bin). Eventually some of that trash will blow away and enter our waterways. Every piece matters, thank you for cleaning up for everyone ❤
3:30 it's like: "hide the litter, maybe others will not notics I'm pig"
Keep cleaning
Just as i thought.
There are good people in the world.
It’s nice that there’s so many groups and communities that have people clean neighborhoods and stuff. It’s just nice knowing there’s other people that care.
Incredibly sad and totally avoidable. The garbage that humans are putting on this planet is unbelievable. I wish that more and more community groups could get together to keep their own neighborhood clean. Seeing how the garbage spills out of private gardens is sickening. May the Harrow Litter Pickers be an inspiration to others. Thank you!
Used to live in coventry ,stoney stanton and foleshill areas have to be seen to be believed mainly asian areas ,they are absolute open sewers,now i lincoln ,the difference is remarkable.
Here in Outer London you can go from a horror show to a beautiful neighborhood just by turning a couple of corners. Not to mention going from e.g Wembley to a central area like Kensington. It's like visiting another planet.
Absolutely shocking 😮
❤❤❤❤❤ Great job in an overwhelming trash environment! ❤❤❤❤❤ (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
You all are my heroes!! I hope you start a trend. So happy you are doing this❤
That is a monumental task to clean up. I can understand getting discouraged. My experience so far in my community has been manageable -- definitely not as bad as what I see in this video. I get satisfaction in seeing the improvement when I clean an area of my community. I realize the results are temporary, but for a time it does look nice.
Write down the addresses where there is garbage in private properties and get the town council to issue warnings and fines ❤
Private land is... difficult to deal with, in reality there isn't much that the Council can do if people choose to let their properties drown in rubbish, unless it poses some sort of risk to others.
Seit 1984 bereise ich regelmäßig die britischen Inseln. Die ersten Jahre war ich begeistert, weil es überall so sauber war. Aber irgendwann nach dem Jahr 2000 hat sich etwas geändert. Egal wo ich jetzt auf den britischen Inseln hinkomme, sieht es so aus wie in diesem Video. Aber ich freue mich, dass es doch noch Menschen gibt, die sich darum kümmern, wie es in ihrer Nachbarschaft aussieht und zur Tat schreiten und aufräumen. Vielen Dank !! 👍
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@@djfearross4144 Ich glaube, das ist nicht die Haupt-Ursache. Auch bei uns gibt es viele "einheimische" Jugendliche, die einfach ihren Müll hinter sich schmeißen. Es fehlt eindeutig an Erziehung durch die Eltern und auch durch das Umfeld. Viele Menschen sind einfach gleichgültig geworden.
Keep up the good work all of you guys and gals. Your reward will be in heaven if nowhere else. Love you. I have some relatives who are partly English. Thank you again.
Nice work! I feel inspired to do some neighborhood picking today. 🖖🏻
Awesome!
Good job mate
Based and clean-pilled!
The city's cleaners go on tour and it looks clean again, great work😊
Just amazing. Great job you and everyone else
Good work everyone!
Good job to you & your fellow litter pickers. 👍
Some people clearly have no same.
1:05 it‘s so crazy to discover places like these while probably many people walk by every day. and this privat property 4:55 looks crazy.
great job again! ❤❤❤
And the video doesn't even show the worst that I've seen. Around 30 minutes of critical footage was unfortunately corrupted due to a problem with my GoPro. Thanks for watching!
What needs to happen is this. People who don’t attend to the upkeep of their or the property they reside in should be prosecuted. Fines and court enforcements should be applied. This is unacceptable. If I lived their I would be going through the process of enforcing the liberty that I have to live in an area free of filth.
In a cost of living crisis with people working even more to make ends meet I’d imagine coming home and cleaning litter from their gardens is the last thing on their minds.
I'm not sure there's adequate legislation to allow for that. But even if there was, it would be very hard to enforce. I should know, I lived in precisely this kind of area and there was no real mechanism for the local authority to do anything. So I ended up cleaning people's gardens myself (in vain, I might add), I have a few videos of that too.
I don't want to bring anyone down, but I'm afraid there isn't much to legally leverage at the moment.
@@Philljag it's got nothing to do with the cost of living crisis. Litter and flytipping on our streets has been a growing problem for years.
@@talex1625 I agree, I was referring to the peoples gardens and private property. My grans garden gets litter all the time and we have to go there to clean and maintain it for her but could take weeks to go do it.
@@KeepItCleanLondon I am in the US. My city had to pass a law specifically covering litter on your property. And hire a code enforcement person. The law has the city give you a letter/warning. Then if not cleaned up a fine attached to the property. But the city relied on residents complaints, they did not patrol areas.
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Great job ladies and Gents. Thank goodness for people like yourselfs.
Thank you!🙏
You deserve a lot more visual.... Amazing man
Thanks, much appreciated!
If people dont clean their yards we can contact the city and they will clean it up and bill the people!
You should make a compilation of the before and after shots of the rubbish zones and spread them, perhaps a book
Great work as always, I love that you included locations of each clean up !!!
GTA South Wealdstone.
You ALL did a really good job❤
After seeing this I really love the place where I am living even more!
Here on island Flores/Azores/Portugal I stop the car, walk back and pick up one single plastic bottle lying at the side of the street... it should not been pushed by wind towards the ocean.
People are not aware what they are doing to the environment and to THEMSELVES...😢
U are great
Top job.
Unfortunately it is now the majority that litter and fly tip. Our green and not so pleasant land.
Salute!
Thank you. The residents make this mess. Shame on them.
Are people living in that area depending on your clean up troop to clean up their mess, thinking “I’ll dump it all here for them to pick it up later.”?
what a great channel to watch. Great vid
Thanks for watching!
What does this say about the people in London😳😳how often does the garbage truck empty the bins?
Unfortunately this is a particularly rough area, but definitely not all London is like this, there are many areas that are much cleaner. Indeed, the residents aren't blameless, there is a lack of a tidiness culture, but it's only one of the factors. But the bins, I'm afraid, are a pain point in much of London - either too few, too rarely emptied, or simply not used even when available. It's to do with lack of resources, lack of money, lack of staff, absence of environmental education and so on. A very complicated issue to solve, that's for sure.
Thank you. God bless you.
Everyone everywhere could be doing this.
Thank you for cleaning up the city. Apparently there are no enforcement/code enforcement officers who cite violaters.
Thank you for making a difference. Do you think if the news station did a story on what you are doing people will clean up their lots/ property.
Multiple news outlets ran stories on us. No change whatsoever, unfortunately, none of it seems to make any difference.
Sorry for errors of automatique writing. Cleaning is good... Punish with financial...
Man it's looking like a third world country over there. Thank you guys so much for your work. 👍
Thank you! Yes, some parts are hard to stomach, I can't deny that, but there is also a lot of potential, and we're trying to tip the scales by raising awareness and trying to get more locals on board with volunteering. In the long run, it might make the difference between this area starting to thrive or continuing to go downhill.
Why do you think people litter? Thank you for helping keep our planet clean!
Such a great work you’re all doing. It does help when there is no trash laying around people tend to not throw it on the ground. Perhaps a silly suggestion, but I’ve seen these workstations on wheels with a broom and dustbin and a place to put the bag while filling it up, easier and faster perhaps? It must be so hard on your hands holding up the bag all the time.
Thanks! Some people do use that sort of trolley and it's really handy, but it's also annoying to carry one around if you need to take the bus and you also lose a bit of mobility if you need to tackle off-road patches (e.g. green spaces). There might come a time when I start using one, though.
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i wonder where you got your little trashbag holder ring...thats bloody useful
That's a bag hoop I got from Amazon, but you can probably find them in other places too, like eBay.
better than gluing oneself to the street 💪
That would certainly be beyond useless and requires a negative IQ.
The London councils really seem to have given up on clean streets, same here in Croydon.
Some of them actually did - I believe Brent ceased litter-picking residential streets back in 2019 and removed 120 litter bins due to budgetary constraints.
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Should get all council employees a brush and have weekly Friday morning clean up day as they do nothing that day
I feel like you should be sponsored by Carlsberg or Budweiser, seeing as that's most of what you pick up. It really is extraordinary how much litter in Britain is either fast food related, or alcohol related. We as a nation clearly have a massive problem. Some days, I feel like I live in a Mumbai slum, the amount of garbage I see. I try and pick up what I can, but I'm one person, and often the places I hit are filthy again within a matter of days. All feels so pointless. It's depressing.
This is why we need a bottle and can return scheme like Scotland is trying to introduce but Westminster won’t give the go ahead!
To my eyes as an American this does not look like a low class neighborhood at all. I'm surprised its so dirty.
it's amazing, i know someone who just got fined £75 for dropping a cigaret dimp in manchester, yet the whole country turned into a dumping ground.
Why do we pay council tax, our MPS talk rubbish all day long get them to come out and do some real work.
Well, Gareth Thomas MP joined (he has joined a number of our litter-picking events in the past too). He is a great supporter of our group and has explicitly mentioned the work we do in Parliament.
Is there no recycling for bottles/cans/beverage containers in the UK? We would never find these things in our area as they are taken back to store for money deposit. It’s amazing how much garbage is next to the trash bins, crazy.
Nope, not yet. From 2025.
Do you try any recycle any of the plastics, glass, etc?
Hey, good work! What litter picker are you using and would you recommend it?
I'm using a similar model to this and am very happy with it: www.amazon.co.uk/Helping-Hand-Company-LP3035IB-35-Inch/dp/B079RLQRCH/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_0
You need tarps to rake all the trash onto; then two-party pulls to the curb. MUCH easier, safer and more thorough cleaning.
I know a area that should be cleaned when I get back from holiday. The problem is I used to sell cans but my friend still wants to so it means we have to take 2 bags. Also does having a litter picker make a big difference?
Yes, having a litter picker makes a difference. It's just safer and easier to use one in most cases.
@@KeepItCleanLondon is there one you perticuarly recomend?
@@XabiExplores I recommend tongs-style litter pickers over those with a cable, because they last longer, but it's ultimately a matter of personal preference. Try one model and see how it works for you.
@@KeepItCleanLondon Good idea
Can you come to collindale next
Y yo pensaba que en España éramos unos cerdos, pero no, tristemente, los ciudadanos que no respetan ni cuidan el entorno de su ciudad, están en todas partes.
Queremos vivir en otros planetas cuando no somos capaces de mantener limpias ni nuestras calles 🙄
and they reckon Rats are dirty ...humans are the filthy ones ..
2:08 That might be someone's tinkle sprinkled in a drink bottle. lol
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Which country is this?
UK
It looks like the garbage trucks aren't picking up trash bins at residences either. They're overflowing.
These are private properties where landlords are required to provide adequate waste disposal facilities. One of the problems is some of them don't and then we get into situations like these
All items to garbage? no recycling?
The council teams collected all the bags and I believe some of it was recycled.
the city should pay you money.
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I am so sad to se that the employees of this city don’t do their job well. In France it’s almost the same. You havé tocollect the trash and ask them to pick it up. They do it but they are not happy.
They do their job to the extent of what's possible, but there are way, way too few workers due to budget shortages, so they're simply overwhelmed, it's impossible to keep things under control - I saw this with my own eyes. All the rubbish that our volunteers collected was promptly picked up by the Council's waste disposal teams - so we're trying to work together with the local authorities.
How can people live in such squatter?? Is the garbage collection company supposed to (at the very least) collect garbage near the bins? Or do they pretend to not see it?
The rubbish collectors are not allowed (nor should) clean up private property. But if you refer to the bags on the street, those are indeed being collected continuously by the Council teams as soon as they're reported.
@@KeepItCleanLondon I referred to the garbage around the bins (11:00 for example). Even here (Eastern Europe) each garbage truck is accompanied by 3 people, two to move the giant containers (they are 1100 liter on wheels). The third one collects anything that is around the containers. There is also an open haul that goes around every container in the neighborhood once per week and collects all large garbage (mattresses, furniture, big electronics, etc.).
@@ДимитърТасев-р9п Oh, that is not how it works here. Anything outside the alloted wheelie bins is not touched, everything needs to be inside the bins, period. There is also no such thing as free collection of bulky items. If you want to legally get rid of your mattress, you pay 40 pounds to the Council and wait a few weeks for a collection slot. Or you pay for a man-and-van to collect it right away, but you risk hiring a professional fly-tipper who charges people money to take their stuff and then dumps it on another street or in a river. It's how things are...
@@KeepItCleanLondon No wonder it is such a mess. Maybe if the council spent a bit of money on these little things, you won't find that much garbage... I've went through multiple ghettos in Bulgaria. These places are notorious for the amount of people living there and the poor hygiene. It was a lot better than this. There were piles of garbage around the containers, but that's because there aren't enough containers (and they can't put more since there are not enough people who are registered there and they can't register since their building is not legal). These piles seemed mostly fresh and changed their content and size over the days (i.e. they are collected by the garbage man from time to time).
@@ДимитърТасев-р9п I'm going to let you in on a little secret... There is no money to spend, we're broke.
I think it is clear that people have no pride in where they live, also I think it could also have a lot to do with the cost of garbage disposal
It's just depressing.
Holy Smokes!!
Great cleanup video as usual!
That is a lot of trash to deal with.
We have similar issues in some neighborhoods. Whenever I get overwhelmed with a giant debris pile I text our local debris removal team, they do a great job at dealing with the big stuff but they suck at dealing with the common debris that are strewn all over the place.
Our fly-tip removal teams are very fast too, but they're also struggling to cope. The street cleaning team, though, are utterly understaffed and are simply overwhelmed. As soon as they clean one street, it gets littered again. They also don't clean most of the shrubbery, which is why it's very common to find piles of old stuff in them.
Thanks for watching!🎉
Dont they have trash truck to empty the cans.
The people that live in that neighbourhood are filthy. How do you even walk by that stuff in your OWN backyard?
Barely any of the properties have owners living in them anymore, it's mostly rented out. Couple that with a very high population turnover, with people moving in and out all the time, and you start to get an idea about why people don't look after their front gardens - it's not really THEIR gardens and they don't necessarily care about maintaining them. Source: I lived in a similar area for years and witnessed it myself.
@Keep It Clean No. It's not about ownership. I would NEVER walk by that mess to assess my unit no matter now long or short my lease. Source I too was a renter/tenant.
@@lezlieanne21 Well, of course not ALL tenants do this, that wasn't the point. There will be many who do look after the properties they rent. You, for example, represent one such sample, and there are many others like you. However, there are also many others unlike you. And if those others add up to a critical mass - and it doesn't even have to be a majority- then we start seeing this sort of problem. There are many ways in which people rent: long-term, short-term, an entire property, a room in a house of multiple occupation, legally, illegally etc. It's not reliable to extrapolate data from a single sample. I've always rented too, but it would be impossible -and wrong- to draw any macro conclusion from my own behaviour.
What I and many other volunteers have noticed after years of doing this, is that communities where owner-occupiers have disappeared in favour of a tenant turnover model almost always suffer from serious problems with waste disposal and street cleanliness. And not just because of the tenants, but also because of those landlords who don't provide adequate facilities, by the way. I used to live in an (illegal, as it eventually turned out) HMO for a few years and I never got to know who my housemates were, because they would come and go every few months. And every other time someone left, they would dump things either in front of the house or in someone else's garden or in the middle of the road. And I would see this with many houses in that area (Wembley). For instance, the third video I ever posted on this channel was me cleaning up the mess left by one of my housemates when he moved out after 2 months... So as far as my field experience goes, what can be seen in this video is not exclusively, but indeed strongly correlated with the level and implementation model of property rentals. Naturally, it may not be applicable everywhere, but it's a pretty good indicator, at least in the areas I've covered so far.
@Keep It Clean Still doesn't negate my point but keep up the good work👍
One community comes in to dump their rubbish, another community cleans it up. Harrow has been destroyed beyond repair but good luck.
You need a shovel for so much trash! 😅
Why? Why is it so bad? I was taught, and taught my children that you do not litter, ever. This blows my mind that people just throw trash fown with no regard.
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Why do you walk past some trash and don't pick it up ? Thank you for your good deeds
We needed to stick to litter-picking within a specific area. I briefly went outside that area, but only to have a look.
need to teach the people that do this not clean it up for them.
I admire you for doing this but i gave up doing this where i live because people have got the mentality that someone else will pick it up also people like living in there own filth and heroin foils and dog poo as for the local council litter pickers they drive aroud in there transit pick up truck and never get out of it.!!!!! Educate people used to make a difference.
Clearing is good but not throwing away is better. Punish with finançait fines maybe...
There are fines in place, but they are really, really, really hard to enforce.
Sorry I was wrong, this area is worse than Paris for exemple, since Thérèse was no garbage collector’s strike in this area... In Paris yes unfortunately
On that subject, Paris was the first European capital where I was shocked by street cleanliness, many years ago. On my first visit, I stayed in 18e Arondissement (Porte de Clignancourt), on my second and third visits I stayed in 19e and 10e Arondissements respectively. I still remember getting off at Gare du Nord and within 5 minutes being shocked by the state of the streets, it was heartbreaking to see, I just couldn't explain how it was possible. I don't know how it is now, but I hope it's better when garbage collectors are not on strike...
Kipp Country cleaner every one the area yes in the bens
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I hope by some miracle litterers see this video or the work being done by you on the streets and change their ways. Its a big hope but its all i can do
Nah, this video was never meant for litter louts and fly-tippers, I'm afraid nothing I can do, show or say would have much effect on them. The target audience is politicians, authorities, leaders, businesses and entities with decisional power to influence or steer society in the right direction through adequate legislation, green agendas, better operational standards etc. And also decent people who could start putting more pressure on them.
@@KeepItCleanLondon Ah I see. That's a good thing to strive for. I hope that they will listen
Uk is getting like Bangladesh and similar countries. Birmingham probably the worst area